Saturday, March 24, 2012

Cookbook giveaway: Norwegian Cakes and Cookies

Each month, I usually run a giveaway here with a cookbook I think my readers will enjoy. This month, I have a copy of Norwegian Cakes and Cookies - a pretty cookbook that I hope will inspire you to cook up a few desserts that you've never made before. The book offers a beautiful repertoire of dessert recipes - many based on traditional Norwegian desserts with a modern twist. Acclaimed pastry chef Sverre Saetre shares some of his favourite recipes alongside some gorgeous food photos. Some standout recipes I can't wait to try are his Marzipan Cake with Strawberries, Raspberry Jam with Lychee and his Rhubarb Soup with Cinnamon and Sour Cream. It's often easy to get into a bit of kitchen routine and to make the same desserts over and over again. This book is the perfect opportunity to step out of your comfort zone - whatever it may be - and try something new!

To win your very own copy of this cookbook, simply let me know which dessert you've made most recently. The contest ends on April 12th 2012, at midnight. The winner will be drawn at random and you must be a
Canadian or American resident to enter. Good luck and I look forward to
hearing from you!

47 comments:

I would love to own this cookbook. Our Norwegian cousins will be here this summer. Wouldn't it be a surprise to bake from this book! The latest dessert I made was Burnt Sugar Ice Cream with Cinnamon Meringues. (Swoon)

The book looks very interesting! I would love to have it in my kitchen.The latest dessert I made were baked banana donuts. You can check them here: http://bybyskingdom.blogspot.ca/2012/03/baked-banana-donuts.htmlThanks for the great giveaway!

The last dessert I made was dulce de leche cupcakes for a friend who gave up chocolate for lent! I am way too addicted to dulce de leche. I have Norwegian friends who always cook and bring us savoury food like brown cheese, reindeer stroganoff (yum!) and lots of gorgeous seafood. I'd love to see the recipes inside this book!

Great giveaway - this cookbook looks awesome! The most recent dessert I made was cupcakes for my boyfriend's birthday based on the drink the 'old fashioned' - orange cake with whisky-bitters-orange zest buttercream.

That cookbook looks very cool! The last dessert that I made was a key lime pie. I made it with my cousin because my cousin told me she had never baked before! I gave her my special key lime pie recipe and showed her how easy it is to make! My recipe is on my blog to inspire other non-bakers to make pie: http://beeeats.blogspot.com/2011/07/key.html

My grandmother always made a Vanilla Chiffon cake for each of us on our birthdays, so I made her cake yesterday for a family gatherings. 9 eggs! 3 heaping tsps of baking soda! Baked in a angel food cake pan. Unusual, old fashioned recipe but the cake is absolutely amazing.

Norweigan food is so underrated! I'd love a cookbook to make it more often! My last dessert was actually cinnamon sugar soft pretzels for a church function. They're always a huge hit because they're not AS sweet as the other desserts. Thanks for hosting the giveaways!

I actually saw this at B&N recently and mentally filed it away to check it out later. It sounds awesome. I'm currently trying to clear out the freezer to make room for upcoming cooking/freezing marathons, so the last thing I made was a couple of loaves of peach bread. Nom.

I almost cried when I saw the cookbook. My Norwegian grandmother's desserts were heavenly. Her cookies were famous in the town we lived in. She's been gone nearly 20 years and my siblings and I still talk about her skills in the kitchen. Funny enough, the last dessert I made were her now world famous sugar cookies, thanks to a cousin who made them in Japan. We have friends who get angry if we don't make them every Christmas. They are out of this world.

Thanks for visiting my blog! I'm loving yours, and extra-excited that I'm in time for this giveaway. I love Beatrice Ojakangas' book (if you know it) and so I'm in love with Scandinavian baking. My most recent dessert--I made the lemon birthday cake from the flour bakery cookbook for my younger son, who just turned two!